On Saturday 11 November 2006 00:31, Steve Langasek wrote: > alpha: > VGA console on TITAN- and TSUNAMI-class systems is not supported. > This is expected to be fixed for RC2. Added. > auto-configuring keyboard settings from SRM does not work. I don't understand what this means in practical terms. Could you elaborate? Does it only affect the installer or installed systems too? Any way to work around it? Is this a new issue or an existing one? Is it something to include in the release notes for Etch too? > installation on systems running AlphaBIOS is not supported. AFAIK this was already included in the RN for Sarge and is still included in the draft for Etch, so I don't think this needs to be repeated. > On this last point, I've been discussing with Jay Estabrook at HP, who > thinks it would be useful for Debian to support a MILO-bootable kernel > image on our install media even though we aren't shipping MILO itself. > The appropriately-configured kernel image exists in our archive as > linux-image-2.6.18-2-alpha-legacy; is there time in between RC1 and RC2 > for me to throw this flavor together for d-i and get it included on the > CDs? I would say yes, but please do so ASAP. The changes to debian-cd should only be made when we start preparing RC2 unless they can be done in such a way that they don't break weekly builds for RC1.
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